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Tom Smith

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Experience

Insight Manager

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham, UK

Present - Apr 2022

Leading the analysis function in the Family Health division.

  • Improving the quality, reproducibility, and timeliness of routine reporting
  • Team skills development, including the transition towards transparency and code-first analytical methods
  • Data literacy outreach, including training information customers in the interpretation of Statistical Process Control charts
  • Implemented a change of Electronic Patient Record system, maintaining business reporting and continuity of timeseries data throughout the changeover
  • Discrete Event Simulation of patient pathways to support improvement

Principal Analyst (Maternity Improvement)

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham

Dec 2020

Developing analysis in support of the hospital’s Maternity Improvement Programme.

  • Developed a reporting pipeline for clinical and management data
  • Implemented Statistical Process Control techniques to separate signals from noise
  • Enabled governance events to be confident in “single source of truth”
  • Improved engagement of the business with their data, through outreach and linked storytelling

Parent

Home

Nottingham

Sep 2019

Time at home with my young family. COVID pandemic. Decision to upskill in analytics.

  • Learned the “R” statistical programming language

UK Head of Quality

Masonite International

Barnsley

Feb 2019

  • Implemented BI reporting of quality status for 7 manufacturing plants
  • Daily data to manufacturing cell level
  • Feedback on external and internal customer feedback, scrap, rework, and raw materials consumption
  • Supervised regulatory compliance, including ISO 9001:2015 validation

Technical Engineering Manager

Door-Stop International (part of the Masonite Group)

Huthwaite

Jan 2018

Managing a technical team through daily operations, new product introduction, and capital investment planning

Continuous Improvement Champion

Door-Stop International (part of the Masonite Group)

Huthwaite

Apr 2017

Business Transformation Coach

Sharing In Growth UK (hosted by Rolls-Royce Plc)

Derby

Apr 2013

Leading a cross-functional team of Supplier development engineers, Value engineers, Manufacturing engineers, and Purchasing specialists to deliver concentrated 4 year training and development programmes to UK Aerospace suppliers. Sharing in Growth is an innovative and ambitious programme to raise the capability of UK Aerospace suppliers in order to share in the anticipated growth of this global market and other associated high value manufacturing sectors. The programme provides concentrated training and development aimed at driving competitive capability to tackle barriers to growth, boost exports and grow the number of high value jobs in the UK.

Lean Supplier Development leader

Rolls-Royce Plc

Derby

Apr 2017 - Feb 2012

Developing strategic supplier capability to meet customer’s current and future requirements (Quality, Delivery, Cost) Diagnosing suppliers key opportunities for improvement, and developing project workstreams to deliver improvement Consulting with supplier top management to agree one and three year development plans Practical training and coaching of supplier shop-floor and management to deliver development Accurately quantifying operational cost benefits of improvements, and agreeing benefit sharing with suppliers Leading best-practice sharing between supplier groups

Senior Engineer (Supplier Production Management)

Toyota Motor Europe

Burnaston, Derby

Jun 2006

Responsible for Tier 1 supplier production preparation, from draft drawing release through to full volume mass production. Specialising in BIW parts and processes, plastic injection moulding of interior and dashboard trim, and electrical & electronic parts. Maintaining close working relationships between Design, Quality, Production Control, Vehicle Planning, Purchasing, and Tier 1 suppliers. Using core Toyota tools (Toyota Way, PDCA, Practical Problem Solving, Toyota Business Practices, Genchi Genbutsu) to find facts at shop floor level, break down problems, find root causes, and agree and implement sustainable countermeasures. Lead mass production kaizen activity at Tier 1 suppliers. Consult with Tier 1 suppliers, achieving improved management capability through best-practice sharing and practical coaching.

Education

Free Code Camp

Full Stack Web Development Certification

Online

2017 - 2016

University of Wales, Swansea

BEng (hons) Mechanical Engineering

Swansea

2002 - 1998